Press Releases

déc. 13, 2006

Sansa MP3 players include the e200 and c200 series - with sleek designs,

removable, rechargeable batteries and expandable memory

Dublin, Ireland - 4 Dec 2006 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today announced that the award winning Sansa™ e200 and c200 MP3 player series would both be offered with FM functionality to consumers in European Community member countries starting in December.

Launched earlier this year, the European models in both the Sansa e200 and c200 series did not contain an FM Tuner due to increased costs caused by tax requirements. However, following

significant demand from the consumer, SanDisk has taken the decision to offer both FM enabled and FM disabled devices to the consumer with a marginal price differentiation.

Both the flagship Sansa e200 series and the corresponding Sansa c200 series with added FM functionality will be available in stores. The feature-packed players all include a flash memory card expansion slot, allowing users to add up to 500 additional songs through a 2GB1 microSD™ card; extensive battery life with removable and rechargeable batteries2; photo-viewing; voice recording with built-in microphone, and non-proprietary digital rights management (DRM) to allow users to purchase songs from numerous digital music sources.

In addition, the e200 series offers a rugged, scratch resistant alloy metal back casing for added durability, as well as photo and video capability facilitated through the Sansa Media Converter for the optimum user viewing experience. (The Sansa c200 also requires the Sansa Media Converter for optimal transmission of photos to the device.)

Ed Moro, Vice President, Managing Director EMEA, said "SanDisk has decided to offer the FM tuner function in Europe as part of the 'freedom of choice' concept of Sansa. Following feedback from customers, suppliers and the media, SanDisk realized that many people would like this function on the Sansa, and we took the decision to include this as an extra for those interested in this feature."

SanDisk recently announced reduced pricing across the Sansa range ahead of the holiday season, and these new low prices will remain with the addition of the FM enabled models offered at a small premium.

The players are designed to work seamlessly with a wide range of popular music formats such as MP3 and Windows Media Audio (WMA) in both unprotected and protected files (such as those WMA files purchased from music stores).

SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products, using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.

1. 1 gigabyte (GB) equals 1 billion bytes.

2. Rechargeable batteries may eventually need to be replaced as they have limited charge cycles (which vary with use and settings). SanDisk sells an end user battery pack replacement (SKU product) for an MSRP of € 15,05.

SanDisk and the SanDisk logo are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the United States and other countries. Sansa is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation. SD and microSD are trademarks. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder (s).

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including expectations for new product introductions, applications, markets, and customers that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our expectations or there may be a slower adoption rate for these products in new markets that we are targeting, and the other risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release.